The legend of Cú Chulain is very famous if one reads fantasy books as I do to relax. There are so very many versions of this tale but my favorite is by David Gemmel in his Stones of Power series. Great reaction Bill.❤ 🥰🥰🥰🇨🇦
Thank you Knight🤘❤️🔥🤘 This was a great song and tale.👍 No Irish in my ancestry either but I enjoy Celtic music. Celtic and Metal is a match made in heaven😏😍 🥰🥰Much love from a Canadian 🦫 Dear🇨🇦
Nice to listen to folk music once in a while. Very good job on the song. I am of Irish descent, my grandfather was born in County Cork Ireland, played bass drum in a pipe and drum band, still have his drum. Never got to meet him though, he passed a few years before I was born. You're right , Gaelic is hard to pronounce. Don't know much, but I do know the Uilleann is pronounced (ill-en). The difference in them is that they use a bellows, squeezed by the elbow, to inflate the bag. Uilleann is Gaelic for 'elbow'. When you get the urge to check out more folk music, here's a few groups I know of, heard a few songs from each, but not super familiar. Heilung , most familiar with "Anoana" Faun, newest is "Black Eyed Dog" Wardruna, newest is "Birna".
Thanks, Chris! I've heard of all of those bands and I think I may have seen a video with Heilung (they wear furs and skins and antlers and use traditional Old Norse instruments, right?) Thanks for the pronunciation! I know Troy for Nightwish uses one too, so good to know how to say it right. Thank ya, buddy!
That certainly appealed to my Irish side. There is something about Celtic folk music that is so stirring. Makes the blood flow faster. Great pick, Knight! Thank you!
@@BemusingBill the story of Cú Culhainn is amazing, he was like ten when he killed the hound of Culhainn, it was an Irish wolf hound which are MASSIVE hounds that were bred as hunting and guard dogs. That specific hound was supposedly a legendary guard dog known throughout the kingdom of Ulster for having killed many thieves that had tried rob Culhainn in the past. THAT DOG HAD RIPPED APART FULL GROWN MEN! Also just to clarify, to my knowledge Cú is the Gaelic word for dog, Cú Culhainn literally transltes to Hound of Culhain. The realm of sky and shadow is often believed to have been Scotland where Cú Culhainn met basically a warrior queen and defeated her in combat, they had a child together the one he accidentally killed later. They say Cú Culhainn would ener a beserker rage and grew 12 feet tall and become a hulk like monster on the battlefield and one of his eyes would pull back into its socket and the other would bulge out making him look like a monster. The Tuatha is a referance to the Irish Gods the Tuatha Dé Danann. Cú Culhainn was said to me the demigod son of Lugh the chief god of the Tuatha Dé Danann. In ancient Irish culture there was a sort of list of specific rules that if followed gave a person great power but if even one of them was broken would sap your strength, one of those rules was you could not eat the flesh of a dog, another was you could not turn down the hospitality of a stranger, basically Cú Culhainn was tricked into a position were he'd be forced to break one taboo or the other.
As I've written before, Gavin Dunne (Miracle Of Sound) is so brilliant! He has released around 230 tracks from 2011 to 2023 (if I didn't miscount) and each one is unique! I listened to all of them. You should listen (for example) to "DUNE SONG - Soul Of Sand, by Miracle Of Sound, ft. Sharm & Sheyma Rochdi", it still gives me goosebumps every time.
@@BemusingBill a great story I heard about Cú Culhainn was that one time as a lad he entered a battle frenzy so fierce he nearly destroyed his uncle's whole kingdom because nobody could calm him down. His uncle consulted a druid and was instructed to gather like 100 of the loveliest women in the kingdom and basically told to have them run at his nephew topless. Cú Culhainn was like fifteen or so and as soon as he saw an army of topless women running towards him, he stopped his rampage and shifted back to his handsome normal self with his face blushing as red as a tomato!!!😂😂😂😂
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The legend of Cú Chulain is very famous if one reads fantasy books as I do to relax. There are so very many versions of this tale but my favorite is by David Gemmel in his Stones of Power series.
Great reaction Bill.❤
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Thank you, my dear friend! ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you Knight🤘❤️🔥🤘
This was a great song and tale.👍
No Irish in my ancestry either but I enjoy Celtic music. Celtic and Metal is a match made in heaven😏😍
🥰🥰Much love from a Canadian 🦫 Dear🇨🇦
A match made in heaven- I concur!! Much love my friend! ❤️❤️
Nice to listen to folk music once in a while. Very good job on the song.
I am of Irish descent, my grandfather was born in County Cork Ireland, played bass drum in a pipe and drum band, still have his drum. Never got to meet him though, he passed a few years before I was born.
You're right , Gaelic is hard to pronounce. Don't know much, but I do know the Uilleann is pronounced (ill-en). The difference in them is that they use a bellows, squeezed by the elbow, to inflate the bag. Uilleann is Gaelic for 'elbow'.
When you get the urge to check out more folk music, here's a few groups I know of, heard a few songs from each, but not super familiar.
Heilung , most familiar with "Anoana"
Faun, newest is "Black Eyed Dog"
Wardruna, newest is "Birna".
Thanks, Chris! I've heard of all of those bands and I think I may have seen a video with Heilung (they wear furs and skins and antlers and use traditional Old Norse instruments, right?)
Thanks for the pronunciation! I know Troy for Nightwish uses one too, so good to know how to say it right. Thank ya, buddy!
@@BemusingBill Yes, Heilung uses antlers and Norse instruments, including bones.
That certainly appealed to my Irish side. There is something about Celtic folk music that is so stirring. Makes the blood flow faster. Great pick, Knight! Thank you!
Yes, exactly! ☘️
@@BemusingBill the story of Cú Culhainn is amazing, he was like ten when he killed the hound of Culhainn, it was an Irish wolf hound which are MASSIVE hounds that were bred as hunting and guard dogs. That specific hound was supposedly a legendary guard dog known throughout the kingdom of Ulster for having killed many thieves that had tried rob Culhainn in the past. THAT DOG HAD RIPPED APART FULL GROWN MEN! Also just to clarify, to my knowledge Cú is the Gaelic word for dog, Cú Culhainn literally transltes to Hound of Culhain. The realm of sky and shadow is often believed to have been Scotland where Cú Culhainn met basically a warrior queen and defeated her in combat, they had a child together the one he accidentally killed later. They say Cú Culhainn would ener a beserker rage and grew 12 feet tall and become a hulk like monster on the battlefield and one of his eyes would pull back into its socket and the other would bulge out making him look like a monster. The Tuatha is a referance to the Irish Gods the Tuatha Dé Danann. Cú Culhainn was said to me the demigod son of Lugh the chief god of the Tuatha Dé Danann. In ancient Irish culture there was a sort of list of specific rules that if followed gave a person great power but if even one of them was broken would sap your strength, one of those rules was you could not eat the flesh of a dog, another was you could not turn down the hospitality of a stranger, basically Cú Culhainn was tricked into a position were he'd be forced to break one taboo or the other.
As I've written before, Gavin Dunne (Miracle Of Sound) is so brilliant! He has released around 230 tracks from 2011 to 2023 (if I didn't miscount) and each one is unique! I listened to all of them. You should listen (for example) to "DUNE SONG - Soul Of Sand, by Miracle Of Sound, ft. Sharm & Sheyma Rochdi", it still gives me goosebumps every time.
Wow! that's a helluva lot of songs! yeah, I'm happy to go down that rabbit hole. Thank you, my friend! 🤘❤️🤘
@@BemusingBill a great story I heard about Cú Culhainn was that one time as a lad he entered a battle frenzy so fierce he nearly destroyed his uncle's whole kingdom because nobody could calm him down. His uncle consulted a druid and was instructed to gather like 100 of the loveliest women in the kingdom and basically told to have them run at his nephew topless. Cú Culhainn was like fifteen or so and as soon as he saw an army of topless women running towards him, he stopped his rampage and shifted back to his handsome normal self with his face blushing as red as a tomato!!!😂😂😂😂